Machine for manipulating cards or tickets for creating value



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C. L. CAMPBELL & M. T. MARTIN.

MACHINE FOR MANIPULATING CARDS 0R TIGKETS FOR CREATING VALUE. No. 290,395.. Patented Dec. 18, 1883.

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CHARLES L. CAMPBELL AND MORRIS T. MARTIN, OF OHIGAGO, ILLINOIS.

MACHINE FOR MANIPULATING CARDS 0R TICKETS FOR CREATING VALUE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 20,395, dated December 18, 1883.

Application filed August 8, 1883. (No model.)

enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The object of our invention is to provide a machine which, by the manipulation of a number of tickets, creates a fictitious market or value. This we accomplish by a machine having a box divided into two ticket-receptacles, in the upper of which are placed a number of tickets. The outer visible ticket in the upper receptacle is then pushed downward through a suitable slot into the lower receptacle by avertically-reciprocating plate, which, when withdrawn, leaves visiblethrough openings in the frame behind which said box is placed two tickets, one in the upper, repre- Senting profit to the buyer, and one inthe lower, representing profit to the seller. These surface tickets are then pushed laterally out of their respective receptacles by a horizontally-reciprocating plate, which closes the openings through which said tickets are seen, while the next following surface card in said upper receptacle is pushed into the lower, after which it is removed. This operation is repeated until the package of tickets in the upper receptacle is exhausted.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation, Fig. 2 is a rear elevation, Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal section, and Fig. 4. is a horizontal transverse section, of our 'invention.

In the drawings, Arepresent-s a rectangular box-shaped frame, open at the back, and provided in front with a rectangular opening, B, of a length a little less than twice that of the tickets used in connection with our machine, and of a width a little less than the width of the'same, said openings being divided into an. upper and lower opening by a cross-bar, b.

Placed immediately back of and having its open side facing and opening into the opening B is a box, 0, which is divided into two com partments or card-receptacles, D and E, by a partition, 0. In each of these compartments is arranged a plate, (I, and spring 6, pressing outward against the plate toward the opening B.

In that part of the top of the box 0 contiguous to the frame A, just above the openingB, is a slot, 9, and in the partition 0, just behind the cross-bar b, there is a similar slot, 9.

Arranged immediately above the box 0, so

down through the slot 9, so as to push the up per surface card into the lower receptacle, is

the plate F, which is operated by a lever, G,

pivoted thereto at one end, fulcrumed at or near its center of length, and provided with a handle at its other end, which passes through the side of the frame A, by which it is manipulated. The sides of the box 0 contiguous to the frame A andparallel with the sides of the openingB are also provided with a slot, h, extending from top to bottom of said box. Placed, say, to the left of this box 0, and moving in the guides i, is the horizontally-recur rocating plate H. This plate moves through the contiguous slot h to push the surface tickets from both upper and lower receptacle, and closes the open side of the box 0 while the next following surface card in the upper receptacle is being pushed down into the lower.

This plate is operated by a lever, 70, arranged vertically, pivoted at its upper end thereto, fulcrumed at or near its center of length, and provided with a handle at its lower end, by which it is manipulated. As the tickets are pushed out of the card-receptacles through the slot h in the side of the plate farthest from the plate H, they are toppled over by a springcam, m, nearly on a plane with the tops of the tickets, and, falling, they are caught on a suitable platform, I, one end of which is vertical, so as to prevent the cards from slipping off thereof. k

We do not deem it adeparture from the principle of our invention if the plate F and contingent mechanism are dispensed with but in such a case two packs of cards are used, one

in either card-receptacle, the surface tickets What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1, The card-box G, having an upper and lower receptacle, in each of which are springactuated plates, said box being provided with vertical slots, as set forth, whereby the surface ticket in the upper receptacle can be pushed by suitable means into the lower one, and thence out of said box.

2. The combination, with the box 0, having receptacles D and E, each of which are provided with means for pushing the tickets therein outward, and having slots 71', of the horizontally-reciprocating plate H, and means for operating the same.

3. The (30111bi11fl13lOll,\\'ith the box 0, divided into an upper and lower compartment, in each of which are spring-actuated plates, said CHARLES L. CAMPBELL. MORRIS T. MARTIN.

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